Simon Wardley & Wardley Maps
Source: https://influences.sgit.ai/register/wardley/index.html↗ · markdown twin of the entry page.
An influence on Dinis Cruz — one of 25 entries in his register.
- tier traced — corpus evidence exists today
- kind person + framework
- status link-out — blocks 1-3 and a pointer: the trace of this influence is an entire sibling site
- briefing none
The deepest-traced influence in the corpus by volume — around 210 files — and the one whose material is entirely a sibling site's. This entry owns only the resonance: why a security person reorganised his thinking around an evolution axis.
Block 1 — The anchor
Wardley Maps — Simon Wardley
The book/blog series, published in the open. The anchor is the mapping method itself rather than any single post.
Linked, never rehosted.
Block 2 — In his own words
The resonance is not the diagrams. It is that mapping makes a strategy arguable: two people looking at the same map can disagree about where a component sits and settle it with evidence, which is impossible when the strategy is a paragraph of prose.
That is also why this influence keeps appearing in places that have nothing to do with strategy. The evolution axis is a claim about a component's state; the risks register's accepted-risk format is a claim with a named acceptor; a trace row on this site is a claim about a codebase. The shape is the same, and it came from here. Popper ↗ is the other half of that story.
Block 3 — The principle
Situational awareness before strategy — draw the map before you argue about the move, and the map is a falsifiable claim about position and movement rather than a picture of your opinions.
Block 4 — The trace table
Where the trace table would be: The trace of this influence is an entire site. Reproducing it here would break the deconfliction rule the network runs on: two sites making the same argument slightly differently is worse than a dead link. The influence entry owns the resonance; the sibling owns the material — the maps, the evolution axes, the maps-as-code work and its own release history.
wardley-maps.sgit.ai — https://wardley-maps.sgit.ai↗
Block 6 — The checklist
- Is the map drawn before the strategy is argued, or produced afterwards to justify it?
- Does every component on it sit somewhere on the evolution axis, or are some of them just boxes?
- Is the claim about movement — where this is going — or only about where it is now?
- Could someone who disagrees point at the specific thing they think is misplaced?
Block 7 — The wider library
- Wardley Maps (the online book) — the whole method, published free by its author https://medium.com/wardleymaps ↗
- Learn Wardley Mapping — the community's structured entry point https://learnwardleymapping.com/ ↗
The corpus evidence
| Path in the corpus | What it carries |
|---|---|
(corpus-wide, ~210 files) | the largest single-influence footprint the mining run found, spanning strategy documents, briefs and the published mapping material |
wardley-maps.sgit.ai (sibling site + its own brief pack) | Dinis Cruz's own published Wardley material — videos, infographics and the maps-as-code work |
CC BY 4.0 — Dinis Cruz, with AI co-authorship (Claude, Anthropic). The anchor work belongs to its author and is linked, not licensed here.
source: /register/semantic-web/index.md